Context
The Vast region of Northern Bangladesh surrounded by the rivers Punarvaba, Atrai, Mohananda and Korotoay is historically called “The Barendra Bhumi”(the dry/rugged land). The unusual tropical position associated with scarcity of water made the lives of the people in the region hard laboring and struggling compared with the other parts of the country. Nature has greatly influenced the character of people of the region making their expressions of love, affection, frustrations, grievances, hatred etc………..more piercing.
The film “Swopnodanay” (On the Wings of Dreams) is based on the love, dreams and happiness of the scorched sunbaked, rain soaked people of the Barendra Bhumi.
Synopsis
Mid-thirtees young man Fazlu. People call him “Kabiraj” (Rural Harbal Physician). Actually who is not a physician but only a canvasser (paddler).Fazlu and his 10 years old son Ratan sell ointments and allied harbal medicines in the village weekly markets by canvassing the virtues of the products. One evening Fazlu returns home with a second-hand (used and imported from foreign country) trouser with a number of pockets for his son Ratan. His wife finds some foreign currency notes in its pocket while she was washing the trouser. They think that these currency notes to be of great value and huge money, but they are ignorent of how to exchange them. They seek help from Fazlu’s childhood friend Siraj. To encash the currency notes Fazlu and Siraj ride a ram shakle motor bike round one part to another part of the rugged Barendra Bhumi. Greed and high ambitions begin to allure them. Centering these currency notes three of them start to dream and imagine. One after another their dormant desires and deceptions begin to creep up and that changes the relationships among them.